History/HRS169

Part 1

• Casablanca
• Beginnings of American Movies
• Early American Films
• Edison Trust and the Rise of the Independents
• Griffith
• The Ascent of Mary Pickford
  
• Douglas Fairbanks
• Zukor and the Formation of Paramount
• Chaplin and Keaton
• Sex and Romance in 1920s Silent Films

Part 2

• The Transition to Sound, ca. 1929
• Early Hollywood Musicals, 1929-34
• Universal Horror in 1930s
• Gangster Movie 1930s: Jimmy Cagney
• Marx Brothers
• Hollywood's Path to the Hays Code
• Screwball Comedy
• Ernst Lubitsch, 'To Be or Not to Be'
• Film Noir: 'Double Indemnity'

Part 3

• HUAC
• 50s Sci Fi: 'Invasion of Body Snatchers'
• John Ford
• The American Western
• The Decline of Hollywood, 1950s
• Screen Idols in the 1950s
• 1960s
• The Graduate
• McCabe and Mrs. Miller
• Spike Lee
• E.T. and the Age of Reagan
• Quentin Tarantino
• Woody Allen